Careers

Guy
Harles

Partner, Co-Chairman

Guy Harles is a Founding Partner and Co-Chairman of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in corporate projects, advising multinational and domestic companies, as well as HNWIs on the structuring of international transactions, private equity investments, corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private wealth management. As an entrepreneurial lawyer, Guy plays a major role in Arendt & Medernach’s international development. He has acquired a very good knowledge of the international market and more specifically of Asia, where he regularly advises clients.

Guy’s international business experience and long-standing position as trusted advisor are underscored by a number of Board-level appointments. Guy also regularly serves as an arbitrator, designated by leading international arbitration centres. He is a former President of EuroArbitrage, Centre Européen de Règlement des Différends Financiers and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

Guy is involved in the lawyers’ community in Luxembourg and abroad. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1980 and served as Chair (Bâtonnier) of the Luxembourg Bar Council from 2011 to 2012. He has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1993 and was admitted as a foreign lawyer to the Hong Kong Bar in 2009. He was the president of the Luxembourg Young Bar Association and of AIJA (International Young Lawyers' Association). Guy currently serves as an officer on the Corporate and M&A law committee of the IBA and is a director of Lex Mundi.

Sharing his knowledge and professional experience is very important to Guy. He graduated in 1979 from the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg with a Master's degree in law and an advanced degree (DESS) in banking and finance. Only three years later he started as a lecturer on business law at the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, the Faculty of Law (University of Luxembourg), at the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) from 1981 to 2007 and at the Université Paul Cézanne (Aix en Provence) from 2010 to 2012.

Guy started his professional career in the finance department of Arbed, now part of ArcelorMittal, the global steel company headquartered in Luxembourg, working on long-term debt and export financing.

2017 was a busy year, not least in respect of legal and regulatory changes that may impact your business. We are pleased to provide you with an overview of the major legal and regulatory developments under Luxembourg and EU law.Please click here to access Back to 2017 - Forward ...

As is the case every three years, the partners of Arendt & Medernach have decided on the new governance of the law firm. Claude Kremer has been elected as Co-Chairman of the firm alongside Guy Harles, whose mandate as Co-Chairman has been renewed. Jean-Marc Ueberecken has been r...